Keeping up with its tradition of recognising and paying homage to famous people across the globe, Google paid homage to late Pakistani Urdu novelist and playwright Fatima Surayya Bajia with a colourful doodle on what would be her 88th birthday on September 1.

The doodle depicts Bajia wearing a white and yellow sari, holding a pen and writing in a notebook.

Bajia passed away on February 10, 2016 after a prolonged illness at the age of 86.

She was a well-known personality in social welfare, literary radio, television and stage. She wrote for PTV Centres in Islamabad and Lahore since beginning of the state-run channel.